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  KM (Elder School) Brief Highlights

  by XBEHERE in

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  besides the usual drivel there were a couple interesting things.

  1. an entire 1 hour discourse on helping our children become little innocent martyrs for the wt via.

  their flawed and unreasonable blood doctrine.

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  Higher education such as a college or university education has no value, it's expensive, and a sign of a lack of faith in Jehovah if you encourage your children to pursue.

  Wow. Just wow. Only an uneducated person or group would make this statement. Or a person or group that has something to hide by making sure their members are as dumb as rocks. What do you have to hide WTS? The truth™ about the lies that you are covering up or spewing blatantly from the platform.

  What a disgusting mind-controlling cult! I'm enraged!
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  Help this girl

  by behemot in

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  http://www.yiyu.us/this-is-going-to-sound-really-dumb-to-jehovahs-witnesses-only/.

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  "You must be logged in to leave a comment."

  Crap, I'm not signing up just to post links to jwfacts and freeminds.
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  So did Barr die or not

  by therevealer in

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  this from an e_mail site.. governing body member john (jack) barr has died (or, "completed his earthly course") on saturday, december 4, 2010.. bro barr died at walkill aged 97 after 71 years of full time service - 23 years as a member of the governing body in new york ..

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  Anyone know how the departments are now being divied up?

  I've just thought on this a bit more and wanted to add to it. Barr just died this past Saturday night, tomorrow (Wednesday) is the weekly scheduled GB committee meeting, this is probably going to be on the agenda for discussion.

  I wonder who took over Jaracz spot in the Service department and what department was Barr heading up? Writing? Teaching? Would be nice if any of our bethel insiders could let us know what the current line-up/breakdown of the GB members assignments.
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  Thank God we get to save all the money worldly people send on Christmas.

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking back to all the years i pioneered and all the money i wasted.

  my husband and i would go through three tanks of gas a week.

  granted gas was about a $1.50 a gallon then but it still cost us about $216.00 a month or $2,592 a year.

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  The WTS beats into the members heads that they are worthless, undeserving, sinful creatures and even after slaving for years for them they still say you haven't done enough, you're still worthless, unworthy of God's kindness and love. Sounds like a great religion cult doesn't it?

  But we now know the truth LITS, we know better than to feel that way and even then it's a constant struggle to combat those feelings of years of indoctrination. Hang in there, keep fighting the negatives with the positives and when you think you're about ready to give up, lean on your friends to give you a hand.

  (((LITS)))
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  So did Barr die or not

  by therevealer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this from an e_mail site.. governing body member john (jack) barr has died (or, "completed his earthly course") on saturday, december 4, 2010.. bro barr died at walkill aged 97 after 71 years of full time service - 23 years as a member of the governing body in new york ..

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  So the GB is down to a mere 7 members?!?

  Yes.

  That's pretty significant.

  Yes again. I bet we hear an appointment within the next year or at least at next years Annual Meeting. I could see 2 being appointed at once to fill the holes.

  Right now the remaining body has to be stretched thin through the departments. Most are doubled or tripled up on various committees. Anyone know how the departments are now being divied up?
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  KM (Elder School) Brief Highlights

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  besides the usual drivel there were a couple interesting things.

  1. an entire 1 hour discourse on helping our children become little innocent martyrs for the wt via.

  their flawed and unreasonable blood doctrine.

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  Okay, here is my take on the crackdown on elders children going to college and allowing them to continue as elders.

  1) It sets up a double standard within the org. Talks are given to enforce no higher-education to the R&F and then they turn right around and see Elders kids enrolled. Causes a WTF? moment and doubts start.

  2) The biggest percentage (imo) of increase in North America, UK, Canada, any other developed countries, are born-ins getting baptized. Letting the Elders get away with this institutes #1 above and leads to more falling out of the org.

  So this Elders Manual accompanied by the KM school is really showing the course direction that the org is taking. The hammer is coming down!
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  Russia: JW leader (Alexander Kalistratov) on trial

  by behemot in

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  moscow (ap) the religious group jehovah's witness says their local leader is being persecuted in russia under a vague anti-extremism law.. the group said monday that alexander kalistratov is going on trial in the siberian town of gorno-altaisk for alleged "incitement of religious enmity and hatred.".

  the group's spokesman robert warren said the trial is part of a "larger problem" that jehovah's witnesses have been facing in russia and called the trial a "misapplication" of russia' 2002 anti-extremism law.. human rights advocates claim that law is used to crack down on dissidents and religious groups that russia's dominant orthodox church disapproves of.. in september 2009, a court in the southern city of rostov-on-don banned a regional branch of jehovah's witness and outlawed dozens of its publications.. google_ad_section_end(name=article) copyright 2010 the associated press.

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  Who is this Alexander? Is he a CO/DO or just an elder in a congregation? More background on this guy would be nice. But I will say, I wish they would crack down on the anti-extremism law worldwide. That could or would spell the end of the WTS!
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  out of control

  by scary21 in

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  thought i was going to die at armagedon at the age of 21... 1975.... so i sucked all the juice out of the world.

  smoking, drinking, drugs , bars, party all the time.

  married at 16 with a baby.

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  Welcome! I'm glad the big A didnt come in '75 too! I wouldn't have been born two years later!
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  Help this girl

  by behemot in

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  http://www.yiyu.us/this-is-going-to-sound-really-dumb-to-jehovahs-witnesses-only/.

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  Yknot you sneaky she-devil you!
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  New to Site

  by d in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am new here i have posted only a couple of times.i still an nervous though.

  i left the witness in 2008 and am still struggling with my belief syestem .although i am now reading richard dawkins the god delusion which by the way is a really good book i am already in chapter 2.so here i am new and unsure, if i should be on this site or not..

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  Welcome d and all the other new ones arriving! There is lots of information here to read up on. Best of all you can come here and vent, tell your story, cry and laugh.